Example sentences of "the [adj] [adj] [subord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then on the third page , some wards with very high rates of unemployment , I think they are the top twenty if memory serves me right . |
| 2 | A new awareness of regional questions emerged in the early 1960s as land use pressures mounted : a substantial rise in numbers of both population and households was forecast ; the numbers of vehicles on the roads was rising fast ; countryside pressures on recreation sites was being felt ; and ( as an immediate problem ) the cities ran out of housing land within their boundaries . |
| 3 | Almost three quarters of married women are now looking for work , 21 per cent more than in the early 70s when mum 's prime concern was caring for her children . |
| 4 | This form of transport was available in Funchal until the early 1980s for tourist excursions in the centre of Funchal and near the Savoy and Sheraton Hotels . |
| 5 | And DUP man Willie Cully , jailed for 12 years in the early '70s for terrorist offences , was defeated after gaining 485 first preference votes . |
| 6 | RioFinex planned to examine the Mawddach estuary in North Wales in the late 1960s for placer gold derived from the Dolgellau gold deposits . |
| 7 | The play is set in the late Eighties when power dressing was at its peak — which explains the bold jackets , short hemlines and figure-hugging dresses . |
| 8 | The revival of interest in what can only be described as a strategy of import led growth began in the late 1950s as uneasiness over the optimistic , autarkic assumptions of the Khrushchev period increased . |
| 9 | Video cameras were used regularly in the late 1980s for crowd surveillance at soccer grounds , and as a method of enforcing post-match arrests ( Uglow , 1988:95 ) . |
| 10 | IN THE LATE Fifties when news-gathering was still a soft-hat and trenchcoat job , Helen Mason became a reporter with the Daily Record . |
| 11 | Deaths from traffic accidents are a function of exposure and risk per unit exposure , with the latter falling as vehicle density rises ( Smeed 's Law : deaths per vehicle per year=0.0003× ( vehicles/population ) - . 6 6 ) . |
| 12 | The take-off flare went up at 0440 hours and Colonel Seawell was the first away as Group Commander . |
| 13 | Formulated originally in the mid sixties for use in large commercial marine set-ups and improved over the years . |
| 14 | Tom Conti makes his TV comedy debut in a new seven-part drama , Old Boy Network , from the same stable as Porridge and Yes Minister . |
| 15 | She walked off before he could answer and stayed very close to the other two until dinner was actually served . |
| 16 | Necessarily some favourites have been left out of the selection and among them are the two larger than life , cast stone sculptures by Wilhelm Lehmbruck — the ‘ Kneeling woman ’ of 1911 and the ‘ Standing youth ’ of 1913 ( two of the museum 's earliest acquisitions , by the way ) — which have always within living memory afforded a moment of tenuous serenity in the same room with Kokoschka 's simmering double portrait of the Tietzes and Max Beckmann 's horrific ‘ Departure ’ . |
| 17 | The tyres squealed as they braked , the concrete smooth as skin and slick with fluids that had bled from other cars . |
| 18 | Colin was based at Linlithgow for 10 years — the first eight as Assistant Manager and the final two as Manager — and although originally from Edinburgh , he and his wife Joy and their two sons , Martin and Douglas plan to stay in the town . |